What makes South Africa so special
Here is a report that the ANC will lose the 2009 elections in the Western Cape and most probably the Eastern Cape as well. They do not mention the Northern Cape, but based on service delivery then they will loose there too.
I am glad to see that the “Two Sisters” (Helen Zille and Patricia [...]
FOR the sake of about R200, metal thieves plunged a large swath of the south Durban region, including major industries, which will suffer millions of rands in losses, into darkness yesterday.
The Toyota plant in Prospecton, KwaMakhutha, Isipingo and Umlazi will all be without power for a few days because the thieves made off with an [...]
Radio and transmitting equipment that stood on a 30m-high tower at the airport here was stolen at the weekend by suspected scrap-metal thieves.
One of eight transmission towers at the airport was pulled over on Sunday to reach the equipment that contains a lot of copper. The thieves escaped in an airport tractor.
The transmission towers, which [...]
Harare – The annual rate of inflation in Zimbabwe, already the highest in the world, has hit a new high of 2.2 million percent, the central bank’s governor revealed on Wednesday.
“Statistics provided by the CSO (central statistical office) indicate that it is now at 2.2 (million percent),” Gideon Gono said in a brief address [...]
People are being attacked simply because they are from other countries or other races. The locals are even attacking people who have been here for four or five generations. The issue is supposedly over concerns of people taking their jobs. But if you saw what is really going on, you would laugh (if it weren’t [...]
Some 17 Xhosa-women were tortured while witchdoctors allegedly ‘harvested’ their wombs and genitals at the Mzamza village which is located right next to the East Coast Casino at Bizana. Most of the women and girls who were so cruelly tortured to death worked at the nearby Casino.
GENITALS WERE REMOVED WHILE VICTIMS WERE ALIVE… local witchdoctors [...]
If there was a brown flag that could be hoisted above the province’s dirtiest beaches, then Ballito on the north coast would have had good reason to pin one to its mast.
Rivers of raw sewage leaked on the main beach after a major failure in a pump station on Friday, dampening beach activities.
At least four [...]
Business robberies have increased in central Durban by a staggering 361% and by 185% in Pinetown over the period between April 2007 and March this year.
This is according to the regional crime statistics that were released on the South African Police Services website. The national crime statistics were released two weeks ago.
The statistics indicate [...]
More than a quarter of the Mother City’s 250 street sex workers (28%) who have been arrested, were offered their freedom in exchange for sex with police officers, while 12% were raped by a police officer.
Furthermore, 63% were verbally abused by a police officer and 47% were threatened with physical violence by an officer of [...]
Letter from Zimbabwe sent in by John Winter I reckon that these are the last days of TKM and ZPF. The darkest hour is always before dawn.
We are all terrified at what they are going to destroy next……..I mean they are actually ploughing down brick and mortar houses and one white family with twin [...]
So here we have it, at last. It has been a while coming, but come it has.
Not that it has been unexpected. It was bound to happen eventually,
in one way or another.
Many very astute and able writers have been trying – for some considerable time – to show how South Africa has been [...]
PRETORIA. The South African government says that its latest crime statistics are disturbing, and that it fully intends to do something about crime, at some point in the future, possibly closer to 2010. According to a spokesman, the Minister of Safety and Security was “deeply shocked” by the latest figures, and would “need time to [...]
Pornographic movies will now be shown on a little television set next to a petrol pump at all major garages, so that you can watch someone else get screwed while you fill-up.
Then on the other hand filling up at petrol stations and driving off paying is quite popular now days in Cape Town. Many a [...]
Hijackers are using pool acid to attack motorists, KwaZulu-Natal police warned.
In a recent case in Rivonia, a motorist had stopped at a traffic light when a well-dressed man approached the car.
He used a syringe and sprayed pool acid on the victim’s face. He suffered severe burns.
Motorists should be careful and not wind down their windows [...]
Jordaan infuriated by ‘Plan B’
Johannesburg – Only an act of God will prevent the 2010 World Cup finals being hosted in South Africa.
That was the reassurance given on Tuesday by the chief executive officer of the 2010 Soccer World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC). Danny Jordaan
Jordaan was furious over reports in [...]